Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2019

Adobe recently published a report detailing the findings of a survey we conducted of 1,215 marketers and B2B buyers in the U.K., The findings reveal that European business buyers expect vendors to display traits traditionally associated with consumer brands, demonstrating B2B and B2C landscapes are no longer distinct.

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Vendors B2B Ethics B2B Thought Leadership 126

Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2020

Leading edges platforms generally have significant installed customer bases and market presence as indicated by at least 25 user reviews across one or more software rating sites. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Pricing: contact vendor. Leading Edge Virtual Event Platforms. Total reviews: 339.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Webinar Metrics 363

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Part one: The promise The birth of marketing technology brought so much potential to the marketing department. I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. Plus, marketing was getting some extra respect in board meetings.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketo today announced the launch of Spark , a new brand aimed at small and mid-size business. Functionally, Spark is pretty much identical to the standard Marketo system. Marketo has discontinued its $1,200 per month Small Business Edition, which lacked some features now included with Spark. So the news here is price.

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Small Business Marketing Marketo Marketing Automation Services Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 2, 2012

I’ve been creeping in that direction with the previous two posts about revenues, growth rates, and market share. In a young industry like B2B marketing automation, the primary focus is growth, and I published some figures on that yesterday (repeated below). This may be one reason the market gave it a relatively conservative valuation.

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Marketing Automation Services Vendors Comparison Marketing Automation 120

Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work?

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Work Management 246

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Marketers who understand how these behaviors are evolving can set up their companies for success in the coming decade. Those who don’t risk misallocating marketing budgets by focusing on the wrong tactics. Buyers now consistently rely on five top sources of information–yet vendors typically concentrate on only two of these.

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Enterprise Management Sales Management Work Management Marketing Management 299

SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you read our post about using Marketo's Performance Insights tools , you know clean data is especially crucial for making decisions about the health of your marketing efforts as a whole. Tuesday: If you are not yet using a vendor to enrich your account data , brainstorm your questions and then spend 10 minutes researching vendors.

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Martech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Channel99, the B2B performance marketing platform, has launched its new “view-through” technology for digital campaigns. The pixel can be deployed on digital campaigns run on platforms including Demandbase, Google, HubSpot, Marketo, Microsoft and Outreach. We’d like to know how it’s been for you. Get MarTech!

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Campaigns Account Based Marketing B2B DemandBase 108

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected.

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Eloqua Marketo Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 19, 2022

Choosing the right stack of MarTech solutions can be a difficult task for B2B marketers, especially for those working in cybersecurity, who may have a more complicated sales cycle, changing regulations, and other obstacles. Lauren Patrick, VP of Marketing at Curricula. Conversational marketing platforms, such as Qualified.

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Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 248

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 23, 2012

final installment in my series of posts on leaders in the different B2B marketing automation sectors, as determined by the ratings in our VEST report. This covers a broad range of marketing users with widely varied needs. Most require the full set of marketing automation functions but apply these in simple ways.

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Eloqua Act-On Marketing Automation Services Marketo 120

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2019

Adobe recently published a report detailing the findings of a survey we conducted of 1,215 marketers and B2B buyers in the U.K., The findings reveal that European business buyers expect vendors to display traits traditionally associated with consumer brands, demonstrating B2B and B2C landscapes are no longer distinct.

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Vendors B2B Ethics B2B Thought Leadership 92

Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Marketing automation programs (MAPs) help marketers speed up processes and increase efficiency. Here are some tips for how to do this even as your marketing automation program continues to grow. Map out the marketing automation program First, map out all the parts of the MAP visually.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation Tips 111

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Microsoft today announced the acquisition of marketing management system vendor MarketingPilot , which will become part of its Dynamics CRM group. MarketingPilot is best described as integrated marketing management for mid-tier companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. I profiled them in a February 2011 post.)

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Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 120

Martech

APRIL 21, 2023

Marketing automation is quite literally that — the automation of specific marketing tasks so that they are accomplished more speedily and efficiently, creating the opportunity to deliver personalized and relevant messages at scale. Table of contents What is marketing automation and why is it important?

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Webbiquity

MAY 16, 2023

end of Google’s Universal Analytics (UGA) rapidly approaching, digital marketing professionals are frantically seeking alternatives. ” It integrates with a wide range of tools including Google Cloud, Marketo, HubSpot , and Mailchimp. With the long-awaited (dreaded?) These are generally powerful but pricey tools.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Analytics Google Work Management 342

Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My last two posts (not counting this morning’s detour into Marketo-land) described common errors marketers make when selecting marketing automation systems. I see two reasons: Marketers are like everybody else. Today’s marketers buy that way too. Marketers are marketers. How did we come to this?

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Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 9, 2009

Summary: Marketo's new Sales Insight ranks prospects for sales people, based on recent Web and email activities. It lets Marketo sell seats to sales departments, which could be more lucrative than selling its core demand generation system. But I expect the sales automation vendors to take the business for themselves.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 2, 2015

I spent last Tuesday and Wednesday at the MarTech Conference in San Francisco, where close to 1,000 marketing technologists heard sage advice, shared experiences, and otherwise frolicked with their peers. There were about seventy vendors covering an extraordinary range of functions. Many firms were familiar to me but others were new.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120

Martech

JULY 14, 2022

B2B marketers have employed account-based marketing (ABM) for well over a decade, of course, but the space has evolved rapidly over the past two to three years. This shift from a reactive to proactive marketing approach is working well for many B2B companies. The vendors respond. Consolidation of ABM and demand gen.

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Account Based Marketing Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management 119

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 8, 2009

Summary: Based on Web traffic rankings, new demand generation vendors with low prices are gaining market presence. But Eloqua , Silverpop and Marketo remain industry leaders. I revisited that data today, adding a few new vendors and dropping some of the very minor ones. You can see that post here.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Demand Generation Vendors 120

LeadSloth

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Most readers of this blog will know that I’m passionate about Marketing Automation and Lead Management. As a consultant, I really enjoy helping organizations optimize their Marketing Automation efforts using the latest techniques and best practices. Both of those are independent from Marketo, and done in my own time.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 2, 2018

In learning new skills, members of the KoMarketing team ultimately become better digital marketers, better support client programs, and the organization. Cross training provides value for broader B2B marketing professionals as well. A while back I wrote a post on how to integrate social media into everyday B2B marketing strategy.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 2, 2012

Intuit last week announced an agreement to acquire local business marketing vendor Demandforce for $423.5 Still, the move makes perfect strategic sense, giving Intuit a stronger foothold in the marketing side of its small business customer base. That’s a hefty sum for a company with a reported revenue of $37.5

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Small Business Marketing Vendors 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I’m going to diverge just slightly from my current obsession with usability to talk about a conversation I had today with Marketo President and CEO Phil Fernandez, who previewed the 3.0 Although I actually think that quite a few demand generation vendors share the Marketo philosophy, it’s still helpful to hear the distinction made clearly.

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chiefmartech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The deal was announced yesterday afternoon: Adobe is acquiring Marketo for $4.75 As TechCrunch noted in their coverage of the news, “[This acquisition] was a pretty nice return for Vista Equity partners, which purchased Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 It’s just that your Marketo choice will now have an Adobe logo.

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Enterprise Management Marketo Work Management Marketing Automation Services 82

Conversica

MARCH 19, 2019

We were happy to recently be named Technology Partner of the Year by Marketo. This recognition resulted from our AI Assistant technology integration with Marketo. This Conversica-Marketo integration leverages the synergies between marketing automation and conversational AI to drive high-efficiency sales lead follow-up.

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Martech

JULY 19, 2021

Good morning, Marketers, and how would you build a marketing ops certification program? If you’re hiring for a marketing ops role, what are you looking for? The vendor-agnostic part is tricky, of course. Why your marketing campaigns need more emojis. Editorial Director. Ready for some of the most interesting stats?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Summary: The first of three posts describing my new scoring system for B2B marketing automation vendors. I’ve finally had time to work up the vendor scores based on the 150+ RFP questions I distributed back in September. vendor strength , which assesses a vendor’s current and future business position.

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Marketing Automation Services Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Vendors 120

Valasys

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Adobe will be acquiring privately-held cloud marketing software group Marketo from Vista Equity Partners for a whopping $4.75bn (£3.6bn)! The common and unwavering belief in the power of content and data to drive business results has brought these two magnets together according to Steve Lucas the CEO of Marketo.

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Marketo Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 40

ANNUITAS

MAY 13, 2021

Marketing Automation Platforms (MAPs) are perhaps the most misunderstood component of the Demand Technology Stack. Is it simple to set up for an experienced team and intuitive enough for non-technical marketers to create and monitor programs and generate reports? They have built personas and conducted market research.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Automation Services Analysis Work Management 130

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 18, 2012

With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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Act-On Marketing Automation Services Marketo Buy 120

Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A few years later, a couple of ex-e.pihanites, our very own Jon Miller along with Phil Fernandez, started Marketo to focus solely on B2B marketing and created what has now become the Marketing Automation space. You know the story here, Marketo, Eloqua and a few others came to quickly dominate the B2B marketing world.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Automation Services Enterprise Management Marketing Automation 87

The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 147

Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2009

The folks at Marketo have always recognized that they can only succeed if more marketers learn the basics of demand generation. The workbook also includes a half dozen “How Marketo Does It” sidebars that reveal more than you might expect about Marketo’s own programs. That sounds like a reasonable approach.

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